musings and meditations from an ordinary husband, father, and pastor seeking to follow Christ

Created For Work

Over the last month I’ve started something new at the Pugh house (actually I got this idea from someone else … “nothing new under the sun.”). Since there’s quite a few of us it’s often hard for daddy to get one-on-one time with his kids. So, on four nights of the week (five eventually, when Braxton gets old enough), after family fun time and family worship and all the kids have brushed their teeth and readied themselves for bed, I spend about 30 minutes alone with each one (Monday night for Breanna, Tuesday for Brooks, etc…). During that time I might talk about the passage of Scripture we are going to be studying in church that Sunday and I read from a favorite book of theirs. Or I might read from another book for instruction. Here’s the book that I have been reading to my two oldest boys: Created For Work by Bob Schultz. We haven’t ventured very far into it yet but so far so good.

The point of the book is to restore us (self included) to a biblical vision of work, work that is to the glory of God, to help us know that work is good and to be done heartily unto the Lord. In a day when we so easily foster bad attitudes about work or wrong perspectives about work, this is a much-needed antidote to laziness, greed, shoddy work, and more. More than that it helps us think rightly about what it means to be made in God’s image and bring honor unto him in how we subdue the world (see Gen. 1). Read it … even if it’s just you as an adult.